#SQUARE LIGHTS?
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I AM NEW TO THIS FORUM SO THIS I PROBABALLY AN OLD QUESTION. ALL MY CEILING
LIGHTS THAT ARE DRAWN ROUND IN AUTOCAD ARE COMMING IN SQUARE IN 3D STUDIO. HOW
DO YOU MAKE THEM ROUND? ANY HELP, GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Lights/Spot/Adjust . . .
The bottom of the menu has "rectangle" and "circular" buttons.
(and turn your caps lock off it looks like your yelling.)
– Ron
Thanks for the advice; however I misphrased the question. My problem occours
when I am importing circles in the ceiling grid from Autocad into 3d studio.
All of my round objects in the ceiling are comming in as squares. I am using
Autocad r13 and importing the ceiling as a solid with 6" diameter circle
subtracted from the wireframe. Someone had mentioned that there was a patch
somewhere to fix this problem but they weren't sure.
Still looking. Thanks.
I believe you need to use the FACETRES variable in ACAD r13 to control the
face-count. We haven't segued from r12 to r13 yet, so I haven't done much with
coming in from 13. But, you might try asking the question in the ACAD forum,
as there has been some discussion of solids-export there.
Dave
Sven,
Are you exporting form R13 using 3DSOUT or DXF files? Both have settings to
control the smoothness of arcs and circles.
If it is a DXF file then possibly your DXF-ARC-DEGREES variable is set too low.
If 3DSOUT then FACETRES is set too low.
-brian
Thanks to all. I was using 3DSOUT and FACETRES was set too low, my
inexperience. Now to upgrade to 64meg ram and I can see everything!